Repository space

[Charles Chambers]

Thanks for the input.  My major concern was that 8TB was not enough
space.  It still appears to be good.

I'll stick with 3072MB (bytes) per second, and give it several days to
run.  The math says it'll take 4.9 days.

Charlie


On 4/8/19 6:59 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
> The 1.3 TB of space is for the *current* archives - i386, amd64,
> Sources as is on archive.ubuntu.com.  To my knowledge, this doesn't
> include old-releases which needs a separate sync (either ftpsync or
> rsync) down to disk, and probably in its own directory root unless you
> use some arcane black magic with your syncing.
>
> I made an inquiry with the Mirrors Team (and therefore the Canonical
> sysadmins as a result), I was provided with the information that the
> approximate disk size on-disk for the old-releases.ubuntu.com data is
> about 4.2 TB.
>
> Which means you will need 1.3TB (currently supported releases) + 4.2
> TB (old-releases) for a total of 5.5TB space on disk to hold all that
> data.  And remember that the ubuntu archives and the old-releases
> archives sit on separate sync points, so you might have an *extra*
> long download time period, and extra bandwidth usage beyond what you
> initially anticipated.
>
>
> Thomas
>
> On 4/8/19 9:45 AM, Charles Chambers wrote:
>> The space is not a problem.  I'm dedicating an 8TB drive to the
>> mirroring, and I'm bringing it down slowly enough (3mb per second) that
>> my provider won't get too hot about it.  If 1.3T is enough for
>> everything from both old-releases and from archive, then it's all good.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 07:36:35 +0200
>>> From: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist at gmail.com>
>>> To: ubuntu-mirrors at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Subject: Re: Repository space
>>> Message-ID: <042bb016-f01d-dc95-0fc3-fed49636ed5c at gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>>>
>>> You can bring it down by specifying only the architectures that is of 
>>> interest to you and you are willing to mirror.
>>> I.e amd64 and i386.
>>>
>>> If you are using ftpsync
>>> ARCH_INCLUDE="amd64 i386 source"
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Brent
>>>
>>>
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